Family Matters: Season 3

1991 · 25 episodes · ★ 8.8

What Season 3 of Family Matters

Season 3 of Family Matters Has 25 episodes and premiered on September 20, 1991. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

25episodes

Sep 20, 1991premiered

May 8, 1992latest episode

10 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Boom!
Sep 20, 1991 · 24 min
Urkel rescues an orangutan from laboratory experiments. Carl steps on a treadmill booby trapped with a bomb.
Directing: Richard Correll · Writing: David W. Duclon · Starring: Barry Jenner, Shawn Harrison, Julie Uribe
3x02 Brain over Brawn
Sep 27, 1991 · 24 min
Urkel's future hangs in the balance during a rope-climbing contest pitting brains against brawn to win Laura's affections.
Directed by: Richard Correll · Starring: Cherie Johnson, Shawn Harrison, David Hayward, David Baur
3x03 The Show Must Go On
Oct 4, 1991 · 24 min
In the school play, Romeo Steve looks forward to kissing Juliet Laura when the original Romeo lands in the hospital with appendicitis.
Directed by: John Tracy · Starring: Barry Jenner, Cherie Johnson, Bumper Robinson, Susan Krebs
3x04 Words Hurt
Oct 11, 1991 · 24 min
Sleepwalking Urkel undergoes hypnosis to uncover the cause of his anger: he thinks Carl hates his nerdy guts.
Directing: John Tracy · Writing: David W. Duclon · Starring: Earl Boen
3x05 Daddy's Little Girl
Oct 18, 1991 · 24 min
Laura's behavior suddenly changes when she meets Carl's younger new partner and surf's up for Steve.
Directing: Richard Correll · Starring: Cherie Johnson, Perry Moore
3x06 Citizen's Court
Oct 25, 1991 · 24 min
Urkel is so bugged when Carl squashes his pet beetle that he takes him to court - TV's Citizen's Court - to settle the matter.
Directed by: John Tracy · Starring: Mason Adams, Shawn Harrison
3x07 Robo-Nerd
Nov 1, 1991 · 24 min
Steve creates the Urkelbot, a mechanical Urkel that is all too much like its creator.
Directing: Richard Correll · Starring: Shawn Harrison, Michael Chambers
3x08 Making the Team
Nov 8, 1991 · 24 min
When Laura gets snubbed by fellow cheerleaders, she seeks advice from Urkel, who tries out for the basketball team and ends up as equipment manager.
Directing: Richard Correll · Writing: David W. Duclon · Starring: Barry Jenner, Kim Valentine, Mike Genovese, Bennie Lee McGowan
3x09 Born to be Mild
Nov 15, 1991 · 24 min
A street gang causes trouble for the Winslows, and things become personal when they vandalize Rachel's Place and attack Eddie. Carl wants to take matters into his own hands, but Urkel decides to infiltrate the gang and tricking them into confessing.
Directing: John Tracy · Starring: Jaime Cardriche, Barry Jenner, Juan Pope, Shawn Harrison
3x10 The Love God
Nov 22, 1991 · 24 min
Steve thwarts Eddie's potential romance, while Carl is undercover in drag.
Directed by: John Tracy · Starring: Lynn Swann, Barry Jenner, Tammy Townsend, Danielle Nicolet
3x11 Old and Alone
Nov 29, 1991 · 24 min
Laura may be sorry for banishing Urkel from her life: in her dreams, she's a 90-year-old spinster whose only visitor is a now-married Urkel.
Director: Richard Correll · Starring: Bumper Robinson, Garcelle Beauvais, Shawn Harrison
3x12 A Pair of Ladies
Dec 6, 1991 · 24 min
Rachel reluctantly hires a loudmouthed, pushy Harriette to help at the restaurant; and Urkel bets the ranch on Carl's cutthroat poker game at home with the guys.
Directed by: John Tracy · Starring: Barry Jenner, Keone Young, Bob Delegall, Thom Curley
3x13 Choir Trouble Mid-Season Finale
Dec 20, 1991 · 24 min
Steve joins the Winslows at church with faith that he'll get into the choir, but he's kicked out by new choir director Rachel, whose position has gone to her head.
Starring: Earl Billings, Ron Taylor, Shana Mangatal
3x14 A Test of Friendship
Jan 10, 1992 · 24 min
The Winslows are ripped off when Carl dozes off; Urkel takes the heat after helping Eddie cheat on a chemistry test.
Director: Richard Correll · Starring: Barry Jenner, Howard George, Shawn Harrison, Gregory White
3x15 Jailhouse Blues
Jan 17, 1992 · 24 min
Visiting cousin Clarence is a slick dude ready for some action in the Winslow 'hood and a bad influence on a vulnerable Eddie, who winds up being arrested together with Steve.
Starring: Barry Jenner, Vivica A. Fox, Shaun Baker, Mari Morrow
3x16 Brown Bombshell
Jan 31, 1992 · 24 min
Mother Winslow regales Eddie's classmates with tales of her late fighter-pilot husband and of World War II's Tuskegee Airmen.
Directed by: John Tracy · Starring: Essence Atkins, Nicholas Hormann, Shawn Harrison, LaWanda Page
3x17 Food, Lies and Videotape
Feb 7, 1992 · 24 min
Urkel enrolls in a home economics class with Laura, thinking it'll be a piece of cake, but he soon learns he less than an A-student.
Directed by: John Tracy · Starring: Kim Valentine, Danielle Nicolet, Susan Krebs, Shawn Harrison
3x18 My Broken-Hearted Valentine
Feb 14, 1992 · 24 min
Urkel again tries to intervene in Laura's budding romance with Daniel Wallace, whom Steve has learned is nothing but trouble. Laura believes Urkel is meddling in her love life and tells him to go away.
Directing: Richard Correll · Starring: Cherie Johnson, Bumper Robinson
3x19 Woman of the People
Feb 21, 1992 · 24 min
When squeaky-clean Laura enters the race for student-council president, snooty rival Cassie Lynn vows to gather dirt on her. Meanwhile, neighbors elect Harriet Neighborhood Watch leader and Carl is down in the dumps about it.
Directed by: David W. Duclon · Written by: Richard Correll · Starring: Marley Shelton, Kim Valentine, Clyde Kusatsu, Cal Gibson
3x20 Love and Kisses
Feb 28, 1992 · 24 min
Hoping to win Laura, Urkel strikes a deal with R&B singer Johnny Gill: his treasured baseball card in exchange for serenading her; Carl and Harriette discover that their honeymoon love nest is of the outdoor type.
Directed by: John Tracy · Starring: Johnny Gill, Cherie Johnson, Thom Sharp, Jesse Stock
3x21 Stop, in the Name of Love
Mar 13, 1992 · 24 min
Laura's encouraging words cast a love spell on Waldo; Carl and Lt. Murtagh trade insults in a food fight over Mother Winslow's bad driving.
Writing: David W. Duclon · Starring: Barry Jenner, Shawn Harrison
3x22 The Urkel Who Came to Dinner
Apr 3, 1992 · 24 min
Urkel's stay at the Winslows brings chaos when he swallows a fish that Carl was "fish-sitting," urges Richie to fight a preschool bully and drives away Laura's study mate.
Directed by: John Tracy · Starring: Barry Jenner, Rugg Williams
3x23 Robo-Nerd II
Apr 24, 1992 · 24 min
It's hasta la vista to the criminal element and hello Urkelbot after Urkel revives his robot for law-enforcement use in solving a rash of convenience store robberies on Carl's beat; meanwhile new shampoo changes the women.
Directed by: Richard Correll · Starring: Barry Jenner, Annie Gagen, Matt Landers, Shawn Harrison
3x24 Dudes
May 1, 1992 · 24 min
Laura sees red when Urkel, Eddie and Waldo appear on Dudes, a TV dating show that Laura claims is sexist; Carl's birthday gets little attention from his family.
Directed by: Richard Correll · Starring: Derek McGrath, Mari Morrow, Judette Warren, Shawn Harrison
3x25 Farewell, My Laura Season Finale
May 8, 1992 · 24 min
Urkel plays bumbling, hard-boiled gumshoe Johnny Danger in a 1940s film noir spoof with Laura as a sultry client who needs protection for her aunt Rachel singer and supper-club owner marked for murder.
Writing: David W. Duclon · Starring: Barry Jenner, Cherie Johnson, Shawn Harrison